The Vision of Artificial Intelligence According to the Gospel of Google

The Vision of Artificial Intelligence According to the Gospel of Google

Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, has a clear mission: he wants people to stop thinking about Google primarily as a means of searching for publicly available information but as a full-on ‘assistant’, helping people to live their lives in all sorts of ways. Achieving this would require solving complex computational problems, and Google is investing vast amounts in machine learning – a form of artificial intelligence (AI). This is central to the company’s long term future; it permeates everything it now does. In addition to further refining and advancing his core products, he is targeting the home and the car as Google’s next frontiers. Crucially, he wants to liberate us from having to rely on computers and phones when interacting with his company. He would like us to be able to…